Doll.



PATENTED MAR. 17, 1908. L. A. 8ACKMAN.

DOLL.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 13, 1907.

LILLIAN A. SAGKMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DOLL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 17, 1908.

Application filed November 13, 1907. Serial No. 401,950.

.clear, and exact description as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates particularly to rag dolls and consists in certainnovel features hereinafter described and claimed.

- envelop In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of adoll embodying the invention, part-being broken away, and Fig. 2 is arear view of the same.

The covering of the doll is composed of a textile fabric out in sectionsso that when sewed together at the seams indicated b r the referencenumeral 1- and stufied wit rags or cotton or some similar packing, 2, itwill approximate in shape a human body. The arms and legs are formedseparate from the body and are likewise formed of a textile of a shapeapproximating the shape of the uman limbs. The arms and legs are joinedto the'body by a coupling which will permit movement of the limbs andwhich consists of a disk, 3, inside the covering or envelop at eachcorner of the body and the upper end of each limb and a pin, 4, insertedcentrall through the said disks. Within the lim the pin is provided witha head, 5, to hold the disks together and within the body, the end ofthe pin is divided and the members thus formed coiled into springs, 6,which bear against the disk to hold the two disks yieldingly together.The limb may thus be readily turned to any angle desired while thefrictional contact between the disks will be sufiicient to hold it intheposition to which it may be turned. The

isks and the coupling in, it will be readily understood, are concea edby the covering and a close joint is efiected. The head, 7,

i is formed of a textile covering or envelo filled with cotton orsimilar packing an having its edge or mouth drawn over and closed arounda 'stifl disk, 8, similar in all res ects to the disks 3 and con led toa like dis within the u per end of t e bod by a coupling pin whic is aduplicate of t e pin On one side of the head is painted or otherwisemarked a representation of a face, as shown at 9, while to the otherside or half of the head a formed face, 10, is attached by stitches, 11.The head may be turned so as to present either face to the front of thebody and the rear face may be hidden by a hood or a wig placed on thehead in the dressin of the doll. A third face may be marked on the headunder the formed face so that by disconnecting the stitches or otherfastenings, 11, the formed face may be removed and the previously hiddenface exposed.

Rag dolls have been popular because of the cheapness of theirmanufacture and the fact that they were not breakable but they wereobjectionable, heretofore, because the head and limbs were. not movable.my invention, however, the legs, arms and head are made movable so thatthe doll may be made to assume different positions and the arts willretain the position given them. urthermore, the face may be varied tosult the whims of the child playing with the doll.

Having thus descrlbed my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters- Patent is A rag doll having movable limbs separate from thebody, stiff disks one fitted within the covering of the body and onefitted within the covering of the limbs at the junction of each limbwith the body, and coupling pins inserted through the said disks, thesaid pins being head to bear against one disk and having lts other enddivided and the members of said divided end coiled into springs to bearagainst the other disk.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

E'rHEIs R. HOWISON, EUenNE R. SAQKMA rovided at one end with a

